User talk:Paradiseisalibrary
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Sincerely, Mathglot (talk) 04:59, 6 October 2019 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
Editing and Verifiability[edit]
Hi, Paradiseisalibrary,
Thanks for your edits to Chicano. Wikipedia has plenty of policies and guidelines to guide us when editing, but it will take a while to get on board with them. However, one of the core principles of Wikipedia is that of Verifiability. If there's one policy you need to know at the outset, it is this one. As Wikipedia editors, are role is not to write about what we already know (or think we know), but to find reliable sources about a topic (books, academic journals, newspapers, certain magazines, some websites) and back up everything we say in the article, by adding citations (also known as references or Footnotes) to those sources inline in the article, right after the added material. Each new "fact" added to the article, should have a reference someplace, usually right afterward.
I can see from these four edits to the Chicano article, that you are attempting to improve the article in good faith. That's great, thank you! But there's a missing piece: you didn't add any citations. Can you please go back to the Chicano article, and do the following:
- do some research in libraries or online to find reliable sources to back up everything you added
- learn how to create citations, and create some, for each of your additions (see Help:Footnotes, and the templates {{cite book}}, {{cite magazine}}, {{cite news}}}, and {{cite web}})
- Edit Chicano again, and place the citations you created into the article, right after each chunk of text you added last time.
Can you do that?
Please note that anything that is freely editable by the public is not considered a reliable source; since that includes Wiktionary and Wikipedia, these may not be used to back up material you add to another article, per WP:WINARS. If you want to copy sourced (i.e., footnoted) material from another Wikipedia (or Wiktionary) article, it's possible: see WP:CWW and follow the instructions there. Pay particular attention to the suggested text for the edit summary field in that case, in order to fulfill Wikipedia's licensing requirements.)
If you need help in any part of this, please feel free to ask me below (in that case, add {{reply|Mathglot}} to your message) or ask me on my Talk page. Thanks, and again: welcome! Mathglot (talk) 05:22, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
- Hi again, Paradiseisalibrary. So I assume you must have seen the messages above, because you've been active since then. However, you still went ahead and made further changes at the article, even if minor ones, without taking care of the sourcing issue. Since verifiability was still not satsified, I backed out your five changes from the article. But don't worry: nothing is lost; it's still all there. You can recover the text from any past version, by going to the History tab. You can copy the text from your old version, find some reliable sources that support it, write a citation or two, and then reinsert your content along with the citations into the article. Feel free to ping me below, or on my Talk page, if you have any questions. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:17, 7 October 2019 (UTC)